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Community's Access Health Care Technology Determine Access Essay

¶ … community's access health care technology determine access ( lack thereof) impacts community economically. 2. Assess community's demand health capital determine factors contributing level demand find. Health care access

The issue of health care is becoming more and more severe in today's changing society. The need for health care provision increase, but the finances allocated to the effort contract. A new solution could be offered by the more intense integration of technology within the provision of health care services (Smith, 2004).

The issue is long debated and has yet to come to a resolution, especially due to the complexities revealed. One important complexity is represented by the different needs regarding health care and health care technology, as well as the different impacts these would generate upon the communities. In other words, before developing a universally implemental solution, it is necessary to assess the various particularities of different communities, understand them and create better tailored solutions.

In such a setting, the current project sets out to assess the health care traits within my own community, which is a community of young adults, at the beginning of their careers and starting out their own families. Their health care needs are different to those of a retiring community, including for instance an increased need for pediatricians, gynecologists or parenting counselors. In this context, three important issues are raised, as follows:

The community's access to health care technology and the impact of this access on the local economy

The demand for health care capital and the factors contributing to the demand

The demand for health insurance and the factors of the demand

(1) Access to health care technology and the economic impact

The people in the community have a relatively decreased access to health care technology,...

This is explained by the fact that the community is located in a suburb, created during the economic boom. Houses in the area became more affordable and easily accessible and the neighborhood expanded. Nevertheless, the infrastructure in the community is still underdeveloped, and so is the provision of health care supported by technology.
The health care facilities in the community are decreased in number, and the community members continue to seek health care services in the city. This situation nevertheless creates inefficiencies for the people, who spend additional time and money when traveling to the city to get medical assistance. The negative economic impact is also felt at the level of the community, which is unable to treat its patients and loses them to hospitals in the city; the community is as such unable to attract new funds and new investors (Drummond, Sculpher and Torrance, 2005).

The community only integrates two health care provision facilities, both centralizing several specialties, such as general medicine, pediatrics, dentistry, gynecology or orthopedics. The facilities are equipped with technologic devices that support investigation and diagnosis, yet they are generically limited to these operations. In other words, the facilities in the local community integrate technology specialized in diagnosis, rather than treatment. For treatment including only medication, this is offered by the doctors in the two facilities. Still, for treatment that requires more elaborate efforts, such as hospitalization or specialized technology-supported treatments (such as dialysis or chemotherapy), the patients are sent to the city, where they go to their previous doctors, or meet the community doctors in the larger hospitals where these work.

(2) Demand for health care capital and affecting factors

In the context presented above, the community's need for health capital is increased. The community as such needs both financial resources to develop its health care facilities, but also specialized personnel to operate…

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Drummond, M.F., Sculpher, M.J., Torrance, G.W., 2005, Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programs, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press

Ringer, J.S., Hosek, S.D., Vollaard, B.A., Mahnovski, S., The elasticity of demand for health care, RAND Health, http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/2005/MR1355.pdflast accessed on July 24, 2012

Schich, S., 2009, Insurance companies and the financial crisis, Financial Market Trends, Vol. 2

Smith, C., 2004, New technology continues to invade health care: what are the strategic implications / outcomes? Nursing Administration Quarterly, Vol. 28, NO. 2
2011, Demand for senior care spurs deals, Market Watch, http://articles.marketwatch.com/2011-03-01/investing/30694995_1_health-care-properties-health-care-reit-nationwide-health-propertieslast accessed on July 24, 2012
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